-----Original Message----- From: change-links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:change-links@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Duane Roberts Sent: Friday, February 29, 2008 4:00 PM To: duaneroberts92804@xxxxxxxxx Subject: [change-links] Obama's billionaire finance chair linked to "predatory lending operation" Penny Pritzker, national finance chairwoman for Barack Obama's presidential campaign and a billionaire heiress to the Hyatt hotel fortune, has been linked to an insolvent financial institution that reputedly engaged in a "predatory lending operation" that focused on "low-income and minority borrowers": http://www.consortiumnews.com/2008/022708a.html This is nothing new for Obama. The good Senator has close ties to other crooked businessmen that exploit and rip off thousands of poor people. One of Obama's closest friends, Tony Rezko, a wealthy developer and co-chair of his earlier political campaigns, was one of Chicago's biggest slumlords: http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/353829,CST-NWS-rez23.article# <http://www.suntimes.com/news/metro/353829,CST-NWS-rez23.article%23> Sincerely, Duane J. Roberts duaneroberts92804@xxxxxxxxx ____________________________________________________________________________ ________